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Poster
Sequential Changepoint Detection via Backward Confidence Sequences
Shubhanshu Shekhar · Aaditya Ramdas

Tue Jul 25 02:00 PM -- 04:30 PM (PDT) @ Exhibit Hall 1 #331
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We present a simple reduction from sequential estimation to sequential changepoint detection (SCD). In short, suppose we are interested in detecting changepoints in some parameter or functional $\theta$ of the underlying distribution. We demonstrate that if we can construct a confidence sequence (CS) for $\theta$, then we can also successfully perform SCD for $\theta$. This is accomplished by checking if two CSs --- one forwards and the other backwards --- ever fail to intersect. Since the literature on CSs has been rapidly evolving recently, the reduction provided in this paper immediately solves several old and new change detection problems. Further, our ``backward CS'', constructed by reversing time, is new and potentially of independent interest. We provide strong nonasymptotic guarantees on the frequency of false alarms and detection delay, and demonstrate numerical effectiveness on several problems.
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Shubhanshu Shekhar (Carnegie Mellon University)
Aaditya Ramdas (Carnegie Mellon University)

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